I signed on to Ooooby, a website whose title stands for 'Out of our own back yards'. It's a site where people can share experiences and plants and seeds and swap surplus produce and help for gardens. Its worth looking at (Google ooooby), but I'm having a few problems with it as a member. I'm having trouble logging in, but in order to get help or notify the site's operators, I have to log in - talk about Catch-22. Here's my post:
Typical. I just plant some warm season crops and we have days of overcast cold weather. Hopefully everything will not rot. But the positive thing is that we have had rain, which has helped the green crops, celery, lettuce, spinach. Everything is just growing, growing. This is what I love about gardening, there's always an upside to balance the downside, and always a downside to balance the up (so that we don't get too cocky about our successes). The good news is that the basil and eggplant have germinated. I started these inside in the conservatory, they have taken off fast. The fastest thing I have ever seen is cavolo nero, it germinates in about four days. Hopefully I'll have some to offer other Ooooby's soon. Trying Maori potatoes this year, put them in a basket in a dark place to chit them. I've just looked at them, they are sooo cute, little stalks all straining to grow. I've got the variety called Huakararo, they are supposed to be buttery in taste. Yum. I'm going to grow some of them in a big harakeke basket that I made. Its totally biodegradeable and I can make more if needed.
